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Taj

Taj serves on the Board of Advisors for Textopoly and likes to see Issue Advocacy Groups, Governments and Political clients come to the light of mobile, noting his personal and academic interests in Political Issues. Taj's background is primarily within financial services, with over a 15+ years at Wells Fargo, UBS Investment Bank, and alternative investmemts. He is the current Chief Economist at Los Angeles based TRW Investments, LLC. Taj graduated from Texas A&M-Commerce, Pepperdine (MBA-Global Bus), Claremont Graduate University (PhD Political Economics) and recently participated at the University of Porto's Int'l School of Digital Transformation as a Textopoly sponsored Fellow to discuss mobile and political activism. Feel free to contact me at taj (at) textopoly (dot) com.

Posts by Taj:

Ahh August…how we love thee so…

Written by Taj

In many states, August means a few things to parents – slow news, end of summer, and most of all, lower utility bills because – THE KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL!!!

From elementary school to college, most kids don’t know that parents quietly act as if they are going to work when the kids are off [...]

If Rachael Ray worked at Textopoly: FDA Mobile

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Yes, you’re still at the Team Textopoly blog where we give you all things digital and mobile. However, in honor of my recent sighting of Rachael Ray, I started to think about the importance of mobile and what we eat.

When I am traveling with no access to a farmers market, I usually pick up Fresh [...]

The Business of Luxury and Mobile

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Recently, I was at a Financial Times Conference that focused on the business of luxury goods, examining trading research for my investment fund. One of the more interesting quotes included the following:

“Digital connectedness is becoming too much of a burden. Disconnected will become the new luxury”
-William Powers

As the resident horologist for Team Textopoly, I began to [...]

away we go…with mobile

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I tend to travel quite a bit both professionally as well as personally with my wife and small children. There are a few constants that stay with me – my smartphone and my mini laptop. While my mini with WiFi card allows me access quick flight and hotel information, sometimes my cell phone has to [...]

How will the Supreme Court’s ruling today in Citizens United v. FEC affect mobile?

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Mr. Franklin Goes to Washington

Today, a recent Supreme Court ruling (HERE) paved the way to lift the ban on Corporations making independent campaign expenditures for political advertising in books, films and other media. Regardless of how you stand on the issue, for us in the mobile world, this can provide an additional opportunity to [...]

‘Bama, Boobies, and the ‘Boys

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As a married Texan and graduate of Texas A&M, nothing filled my heart more than a few items that occurred over the weekend.

First, the Crimson Tide placed a mighty stomping on “The School That Shall Not be Named” and proved that team sports means just that, not relying on one person.

Next, after a thrashing the [...]

Sound Off: Should US Airlines Allow In flight Cell UsageSou

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Recently a local NPR Station hosted a forum discussing mobile use on airlines, highlighting that our European counterparts such as RyanAir & British Airways already allow passengers to use mobile.

Currently, the FCC prohibits in-flight use of cell phones, and there’s a bill pending in Congress to ban mobile from flights altogether . The resistance [...]

What Mobile Means to the Digital Revolution

Written by Taj

While many think of advertising and marketing solely in a consumer based sense, issue advocacy groups (Think Tanks, 527 orgs, nonprofits) are now using some of the same tactics to detail the importance of their cause to the public. Many are realizing that the people they serve want to be engaged in various mediums, whether [...]